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D, d

  [dee]
–noun, plural D's or Ds, d's or ds.
1. the fourth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. any spoken sound represented by the letter D or d, as in dog, ladder, ladle, or pulled.
3. something having the shape of a D.
4. a written or printed representation of the letter D or d.
5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter D or d.

d-

 
Symbol, Biochemistry. (of a molecule) having a configuration resembling the dextrorotatory isomer of glyceraldehyde: always printed as a small capital, roman character (distinguished from l- ).
Compare d-.

d-

 
Symbol, Chemistry, Biochemistry.
dextrorotatory; dextro- (distinguished from l- ).
Compare D-.

d'

1 
–preposition
1. de (used in French names as an elided form of de): Charles Louis d'Albert.
2. di (used in Italian names as an elided form of di): Gabriele d'Annunzio.

d'

2 
Pronunciation Spelling. contraction of do or did before you: How d'you like your eggs cooked? D'you go to the movies last night?

'd

 
1. contraction of had: I was glad they'd gone.
2. contraction of did: Where'd they go?
3. contraction of should or would: He'd like to go. I'd like to remind you of your promise.
4. contraction of -ed: She OK'd the plan.

D

 
1. Electricity. debye.
2. deep.
3. depth.
4. Optics. diopter.
5. divorced.
6. Dutch.

D

 
Symbol.
1. the fourth in order or in a series.
2. (sometimes lowercase) (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work as poor or barely passing.
3. (sometimes lowercase) a classification, rating, or the like, indicating poor quality.
4. Music.
a. the second tone in the scale of C major, or the fourth tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
b. a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
c. a written or printed note representing this tone.
d. (in the fixed system of solmization) the second tone of the scale of C major, called re.
e. the tonality having D as the tonic note.
5. (sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for 500. Compare Roman numerals.
6. Chemistry. deuterium.
7. Electricity.
a. electric displacement.
b. a battery size for 1.5 volt dry cells: diameter, 1.3 in. (3.3 cm); length, 2.4 in. (6 cm).
8. Biochemistry. aspartic acid.
9. a symbol for a shoe width size narrower than E and wider than C.
10. a proportional brassiere cup size larger than C.

D.

 
1. day.
2. December.
3. Democrat.
4. Democratic.
5. Physics. density.
6. Deus.
7. Deuteronomy.
8. Doctor.
9. dose.
10. Dutch.

d.

 
1. (in prescriptions) give. Origin:
< L dā
2. date.
3. daughter.
4. day.
5. deceased.
6. deep.
7. degree.
8. delete.
9. British. pence. Origin:
< L denāriī
10. British. penny. Origin:
< L denārius
11. Physics. density.
12. depth.
13. deputy.
14. dialect.
15. dialectal.
16. diameter.
17. died.
18. dime.
19. dividend.
20. dollar; dollars.
21. dose.
22. drachma.

de⋅bye

  [di-bahy]
–noun Electricity.
a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10–18 statcoulomb-centimeters. Abbreviation: D
Origin:
1930–35; named after P. J. W. Debye

De⋅us

  [dee-uhs, dey-; Lat. de-oos]
–noun
God. Abbreviation: D.
Origin:
1250–1300; < L: god, earlier deiuos; c. Skt deva, Lith diẽvas, OIr día

di⋅op⋅ter

  [dahy-op-ter]
–noun
1. Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D
2. an instrument, invented by Hipparchus, to measure the apparent diameter of the sun or moon or to estimate the size or elevation of distant objects.
Also, especially British, di⋅op⋅tre.

Origin:
1585–95; < L dioptra < Gk: instrument for measuring height or levels, equiv. to di- di- 3 + op- (for ópsesthai to see) + -tra n. suffix of means

Related forms:
di⋅op⋅tral, adjective

Dutch

  [duhch]
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
2. pertaining to or designating the style of painting and subject matter developed in the Netherlands during the 17th century, chiefly characterized by the use of chiaroscuro, muted tones, naturalistic colors or forms, and of genre, landscape, or still-life subjects drawn from contemporary urban and rural life.
3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
4. Archaic. German; Teutonic.
–noun
5. the people of the Netherlands and their immediate descendants elsewhere, collectively.
6. Pennsylvania Dutch.
7. Also called Netherlandic. the Germanic language of the Netherlands and northern Belgium. Abbreviation: D Compare Flemish.
8. Obsolete. the German language.
—Idioms
9. go Dutch, to have each person pay his or her own expenses: a dinner where everyone goes Dutch. Also, go dutch.
10. in Dutch, in trouble or disfavor (with someone): in Dutch with the teacher for disturbing the class.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME Duch < MD duutsch Dutch, German(ic); c. OHG diutisc popular (language) (as opposed to learned Latin), trans. of L (lingua) vulgāris popular (language)

pen⋅ny

  [pen-ee] noun, plural pen⋅nies, (especially collectively for 2, 3) pence, adjective
–noun
1. a bronze coin, the 100th part of the dollars of various nations, as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States; one cent.
2. Also called new penny. a bronze coin and monetary unit of the United Kingdom and various other nations, the 100th part of a pound. Abbreviation: p
3. a former bronze coin and monetary unit of the United Kingdom and various other nations, the 12th part of a shilling: use phased out in 1971. Abbreviation: d.
4. a sum of money: He spent every penny he ever earned.
5. the length of a nail in terms of certain standard designations from twopenny to sixtypenny.
–adjective
6. Stock Exchange. of, pertaining to, or being penny stock: frenzied speculation in the penny market.
—Idioms
7. a bad penny, someone or something undesirable.
8. a pretty penny, Informal. a considerable sum of money: Their car must have cost them a pretty penny.
9. Chiefly British Slang. spend a penny, to urinate: from the former cost of using a public lavatory.
10. turn an honest penny, to earn one's living honestly; make money by fair means: He's never turned an honest penny in his life.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME peni, OE penig, pænig, pen(n)ing, pending, c. OFris penning, panning, OS, D penning, OHG pfenning, phantinc, phenting (G Pfennig), ON penningr (perh. < OE); < WGmc or Gmc *pandingaz, prob. equiv. to *pand- pawn 2 + *-ingaz -ing 3

Related forms:
pennied, adjective
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d 1 or D   (dē)   
n.   pl. d's or D's also ds or Ds

  1. The fourth letter of the modern English alphabet.

  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter d.

  3. The fourth in a series.

  4. Something shaped like the letter D.

  5. D The lowest passing grade given to a student in a school or college.

  6. Music

    1. The second tone in the scale of C major or the fourth tone in the relative minor scale.

    2. A key or scale in which D is the tonic.

    3. A written or printed note representing this tone.

    4. A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.

d 2  
abbr.  

  1. deuteron

  2. diameter

  3. differential

  4. down quark

D 1  

  1. The symbol for the isotope deuterium.

  2. also d The symbol for the Roman numeral 500.

D 2  
abbr.  

  1. dative

  2. day

  3. Democrat

  4. down

day   (dā)   
n.  

  1. The period of light between dawn and nightfall; the interval from sunrise to sunset.

    1. The 24-hour period during which the earth completes one rotation on its axis.

    2. The period during which a celestial body makes a similar rotation.

    3. A specific, characteristic period in one's lifetime: In Grandmother's day, skirts were long.

    4. A period of opportunity or prominence: Every defendant is entitled to a day in court. That child will have her day.

  3. Abbr. D One of the numbered 24-hour periods into which a week, month, or year is divided.

  4. The portion of a 24-hour period that is devoted to work, school, or business: an eight-hour day; a sale that lasted for three days.

  5. A 24-hour period or a portion of it that is reserved for a certain activity: a day of rest.

    1. A specific, characteristic period in one's lifetime: In Grandmother's day, skirts were long.

    2. A period of opportunity or prominence: Every defendant is entitled to a day in court. That child will have her day.

  7. A period of time in history; an era: We studied the tactics used in Napoleon's day. The day of computer science is well upon us.

  8. days Period of life or activity: The sick cat's days will soon be over.

adj.  

  1. Of or relating to the day.

  2. Working during the day: the day nurse.

  3. Occurring before nightfall: a day hike.


[Middle English dai, day, from Old English dæg; see agh- in Indo-European roots.]
deu·ter·on   (dōō'tə-rŏn', dyōō'-)   
n.   Abbr. d
The nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of a proton and a neutron, regarded as a subatomic particle with unit positive charge.

[deuter(ium) + -on1.]
di·am·e·ter   (dī-ām'ĭ-tər)   
n.  

  1. Abbr. d or diam. Mathematics

    1. A straight line segment passing through the center of a figure, especially of a circle or sphere, and terminating at the periphery.

    2. The length of such a segment.

  2. Thickness or width.

  3. A unit for measuring the magnifying power of a microscope lens or telescope, equal to the number of times an object's linear dimensions are apparently increased.


[Middle English diametre, from Old French, from Latin diametrus, from Greek diametros (grammē), diagonal (line) : dia-, dia- + metron, measure; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.]
di·am'e·tral (-trəl) adj.
down quark  
n.   Abbr. d
A quark with a charge of - 1/3 , a mass about 20 times that of the electron, and a downward spin. It is a component of protons and neutrons. See Table at subatomic particle.
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Slang Dictionary
penny

  1. n.
    a police officer. (A play on copper. See the note at copper.) : The penny over on the corner told the boys to get moving.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Word Origin & History

penny 
O.E. pening, penig "penny," from P.Gmc. *panninggaz (cf. O.N. penningr, Swed. pänning, O.Fris. panning, M.Du. pennic, O.H.G. pfenning, Ger. Pfennig, not recorded in Goth., where skatts is used instead), of unknown origin. The English coin was originally set at one-twelfth of a shilling and was of silver, later copper, then bronze. There are two plural forms: pennies of individual coins, pence collectively. In translations it rendered various foreign coins of small denomination, esp. L. denarius, whence comes its abbreviation d. As Amer.Eng. colloquial for cent, it is recorded from 1889. Penniless "destitute" is attested from c.1310. Pennyweight is O.E. penega gewiht, originally the weight of a silver penny. Penny-a-liner "writer for a journal or newspaper" is attested from 1834. Penny dreadful "cheap and gory fiction" dates from c.1870. Phrase penny-wise and pound-foolish is recorded from 1607.

Dutch 
c.1380, used first of Germans generally, after c.1600 of Hollanders, from M.Du. duutsch, from O.H.G. duit-isc, corresponding to O.E. þeodisc "belonging to the people," used especially of the common language of Germanic people, from þeod "people, race, nation," from P.Gmc. *theudo "popular, national" (see Teutonic), from PIE base *teuta- "people" (cf. O.Ir. tuoth "people," O.Lith. tauta "people," O.Prus. tauto "country," Oscan touto "community"). As a language name, first recorded as L. theodice, 786 C.E. in correspondence between Charlemagne's court and the Pope, in reference to a synodical conference in Mercia; thus it refers to Old English. First reference to the German language (as opposed to a Germanic one) is two years later. The sense was extended from the language to the people who spoke it (in Ger., Diutisklant, ancestor of Deutschland, was in use by 13c.). Sense narrowed to "of the Netherlands" in 17c., after they became a united, independent state and the focus of English attention and rivalry. In Holland, duitsch is used of the people of Germany. The M.E. sense survives in Pennsylvania Dutch, who immigrated from the Rhineland and Switzerland. Since 1608, Dutch (adj.) has been a "pejorative label pinned by English speakers on almost anything they regard as inferior, irregular, or contrary to 'normal' (i.e., their own) practice" [Rawson]. E.g. Dutch treat (1887), Dutch uncle (1838), etc. -- probably exceeded in such usage only by Indian and Irish -- reflecting first British commercial and military rivalry and later heavy Ger. immigration to U.S.
The Dutch themselves spoke English well enough to understand the unsavory connotations of the label and in 1934 Dutch officials were ordered by their government to stop using the term Dutch. Instead, they were to rewrite their sentences so as to employ the official The Netherlands. [Rawson]
Dutch elm disease (1927) so called because it was first discovered in Holland (caused by fungus Ceratocystis ulmi).
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Financial Dictionary

D

A Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock is a new issue.

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Nasdaq-listed securities have four or five characters. If a fifth letter appears, it identifies the issue as other than a single issue of common stock or capital stock

See also: Nasdaq, Stock Symbol

Also spelled: D

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d

Used in the daily or weekly low column of stock transaction tables in newspapers to indicate that the price of a security reached a new 52-week low: d16.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: D
Function: abbreviation
1district
2defendant
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: d
Function: abbreviation
1 dalton
2date
3 daughter
4 day
5 dead
6 deceased
7 deciduous
8 degree
9 density
10 developed
11 deviation
12 dexter
13 diameter
14 died
15 diopter
16disease
17 divorced
18 dorsal
19 dose
20 duration

Main Entry: D
Function: symbol
deuterium

Main Entry: d-
Pronunciation: "dE, 'dE
Function: prefix
1 : dextrorotatory —usually printed in italic <d-tartaric acid>
2 : having a similar configuration at a selected carbon atom to the configuration of dextrorotatory glyceraldehyde —usually printed as a small capital <D-fructose>

Main Entry: di·op·ter
Variant: or chiefly British di·op·tre /dI-'äp-t&r, 'dI-"äp-/
Function: noun
: a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens equal to the reciprocal of the focal length in meters
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D 1

The symbol for the isotope deuterium.

D 2
abbr.

  1. dexter

  2. diffusing capacity

  3. dead space

D. abbr.

  1. diopter

  2. dose

d- pref. d-
To the right; dextro: d-tartaric acid.

diopter di·op·ter (dī-ŏp'tər)
n.
Abbr. D.
A unit of measurement of the refractive power of lenses equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters.

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Science Dictionary
d  
Abbreviation of diameter
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Computing Dictionary

D
1. "The Data Language." MS-DOS 4GL.
2. A Haskell-like language, with type classes.
E-mail: .

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
d

  1. deuteron

  2. diameter

  3. differential

  4. down quark

D

  1. dative

  2. day

  3. Democrat

  4. determiner

  5. deuterium

  6. [suggestive] dialogue (television rating)

  7. diction

  8. divorced

  9. down

  10. Dutch

  11. 500

  12. Germany (international vehicle ID)

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